The Meeting on 2/18/2026 at was canceled for Ash Wednesday.
Reports were given via e-mail
REPORTS GIVEN IN THIS ORDER
President
VP
Treasurer
Secretary
Public Relations
Director of Bars and downtown business connections
Lead Volunteer Debbie F.
Lead Volunteer & High School Liaison Kendall
PRESIDENT
Registrations update
We have 84 Registered
A lot of 1st timers.
We have about 9 that have not paid yet.
Some of these are when people click to pay by check, but then never send us the check.
I have 2 checks. $300 for the Papa John Entry
and the $5000 for the O’Shea Title Sponsorship
The Sierra’s Jumbo Cookie shop
Last year there was a downtown jumbo cookie shop that had a 10 x 10′ tent among the Food Trucks.
They did not actually apply last year, just kind of worked it out to be there?
End result- they never paid the fee to be there and they expected to be there free again this year.
This resulted in me spending WAYYYY too much time (over a week) communicating with them why that should not be free again this year.
No free pass.
Everyone else pays why would they get in free?
So the Food truck page was not good for them to sign up ….because it only allowed a $100 fee and they were not a big truck.
All the back and forth resulted in the creation of a new Food Registration page….for NON-Truck Vendors
https://stpatsdayparade.com/food-vendor-sign-up/
Irish School of Dance
We let them register for $50 as a school.
They will have 20 dancers
Compared 2 Sign up lists
Jean had idea to compare our present sign up list with who was in the parade last year..and see who hasn’t signed back up. I wrote and excel script code to do it for us. To our surprise, 52 names were people from last year, that have NOT signed up yet…and we have less than 20 spots left.
Had a Sponsor question
I did a Sponsor list check with Miranda. That included Kolin and Dan for Maldener’s Breakfast and Mine (I sponsor the Alamo Bartender Tip – when the Parade pays for Drinks..I cover the tip)
Worked on Logo Re-creation
Re-created our Logo into a huge size, so it can be shrunk down and put on a Koozie
Got that to Barry for the order.
New email created
Volunteers@StPatsDayParade.com
This can be used by Deb F and Laura S. Any email going to that new one…gets auto forwarded to Deb F’s personal email.
Food Truck Issue
a food truck called the “House of Briskett” signed up on 1/23….despite the page saying we were closed.. but also paid the $100 fee. I’ve asked a couple of time about this guy… and really only got 1 response and that was from Deb T…saying just let him stay. So that would be 7 food trucks and one table that sells giant cookies. We better have good weather there’s a lot of people.
VICE PRESIDENT
Great news — we’re at 84 entries, right on pace with where we were at this time last year, and we have one week to go!
I went ahead and posted last night that the February 28 registration deadline is firm with no exceptions,
We should plan to post every other day to keep it top of mind for everyone.
I’ll have everything ready by March 4 for the website, so we can start preparing the parade packets at that point.
I’ll send Jim updated versions of all the necessary documents that go into the packets and you can have them printed.
She used Fed Ex located out by Target to do all of the printing.
You’ll want to go ahead and order the green envelopes soon on Amazon —
JAM Paper 9 x 12 Open End Catalog Green Envelopes, Green Recycled, 100 pack for $40.84 on Amazon.
I included the receipt in my reimbursement request for reference, and Tracy may have it as well.
TREASURER TRACY
The bank’s transactions and the QuickBooks’s transactions both agree, and the balances agree.
SECRETARY JEAN
4. Grand Marshall and how they want to be transported.
PUBLIC RELATION MIRANDA
Volunteer request to go out on to Parade Facebook.
Will increase the number of Parade posts going forward.
Sponsors so far? Any new?
DIRECTOR OF BARS & DOWNTOWN BUSINESS CONNECTIONS BARRY!
10,000 wrist bands are bought
Coozies are bought
Most of my things are done .
Just waiting on bars to start paying their fees.
I have Skeff distributing’s $1000 sponsor check.
LEAD VOLUNTEER DEBBIE F.
She and new Volunteer Lauren Stilz, made flyers promoting being volunteers
Per a discussion Jim Emailed last year’s volunteers with a link to sign up this year.
LEAD VOLUNTEER & HIGH SCHOOL LIAISON KENDAL
He is in he email group and will stay up on things that way.
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LOOKING FOR IDEAS?
Debrief ideas of last year’s parade are here.
https://stpatsdayparade.com/2025-parade-committee-notes/